Taxes

Last night I went to a title 1 meeting. It was very interesting and made me feel so comforted to be a part of a small school and small community within a small community. We listened to the Superintendent speak first about how important the levy is too keep our schools up to the standards we have reached in this area in the past few years especially. In our school district 550 employees of 8-10 schools, 1/3 will be lost if the levy is not passed. That is a HUGE impact in our already recession filled community. Almost 200 more people out of work, PLUS, program cuts, like the title one program, technology, P.E., etc... The cost to a household would be from.76-5.00/month increase in property tax. The problem I see, is we live in a Bluebird community, folks have their 2nd and 3rd homes here. The one's who would be paying the 5.00 increase a month, 60.00 more a year. They don't want to pay it, they don't care (generalizing here) about a community they aren't REALLY a part of. My property taxes went up significantly this year , I mean hundreds of dollars, because of improvements we have made on our home. We live on a road that is deemed "Privately maintained, Public Acess" , which is a contradiction in itself. So needless to say 4-6 wks a year I can not access the last mile of mud road in front of my house via vehicle, so I walk my kids a mile to our parked car and than drive to school and back and back again, sometimes totally 4-6 times a day, depending on our schedules. Needless to say, the hundreds of extra dollars I paid in new property taxes this year did not go towards maintaining my road (by the way 30+ families live on this rd), nor is there a plan in the future to have any money (besides our neighborhood rd. ass. dues) go towards the rd. And when we call to make our needs known we are put on hold, passed around, generally forgotten about so we will go away...
Sorry this rant kinda evolved... Taxes.